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of two months, and was constantly occupied about 

 her, without observing anything in her nature 

 which reminded him even remotely of the psycho- 

 logical conditions of apes. She was a degraded 

 specimen of humanity, differing in no respect from 

 the human type.* 



I also examined Margaret Becker, as well 

 as another , microcephalic girl, who was in the 

 Berlin Asylum in the years 1868 and 1869. With 

 respect to the former and more animated being, I 

 have nothing essential to add to the information 



published by Virchow. Ida X , the other 



individual whom I examined at Berlin, was at the 

 time of my researches aged thirteen years and five 

 months. Her figure was slightly made and well 

 proportioned, while her profile reminded me to a 

 modified extent of that of the microcephalic Aztec, 

 and also of the heads represented in ancient sculpture 

 of Mayapan, Palenque, and Copan, I must not omit 

 to say that Ida had light blue eyes and fair, glossy 

 hair. She was altogether impassive ; could only 

 utter the syllables da-da ; and once betrayed a slight 

 sign of displeasure when the cold metal of the 

 measuring-rod was placed against the inner side 

 of her thigh, for the sake of obtaining the dimensions 

 of the different parts of her body. 



Virchow's information respecting Esther Jacob- 

 witz, of Waschahel, is also extremely interesting. 

 She was a microcephalic girl of the age of fourteen, 

 and a Hungarian Jew by race.f Virchow remarks 



* Yerhandlungen der ierliner Anthropologischen Gesellscliaft, 1877. 

 t Ibid., p. 25 : 1878. 



